Muslim American Women on Campus Undergraduate Social Life and Identity / Shabana Mir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mir, Shabana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--United States--Ethnic identity.

Muslims.

Muslim women--Conduct of life.

Muslim women.

Women college students--United States--Social life and customs.

Women college students.

Women college students--United States--Conduct of life.

Muslim women--United States--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny--scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives"-- Provided by publisher.

"Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny--scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives. Mir, an anthropologist of education, focuses on key leisure practices--drinking, dating, and fashion--to probe how Muslim American students adapt to campus life and build social networks that are seamlessly American, Muslim, and youthful. In this lively and highly accessible book, we hear the women's own often poignant voices as they articulate how they find spaces within campus culture as well as their Muslim student communities to grow and assert themselves as individuals, women, and Americans. Mir concludes, however, that institutions of higher learning continue to have much to learn about fostering religious diversity on campus"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Muslim American Women in Campus Culture; 3 I Didn't Want to Have That Outcast Belief about Alcohol Walking the Tightrope of Alcohol in Campus Culture; 4 You Can't Really Look Normal and Dress Modestly Muslim Women and Their Clothes on Campus; 5 Let Them Be Normal and Date Muslim American Undergraduate Women in Sexualized Campus Culture; 6 Conclusion; Glossary; A; B; D; H; I; J; M; K; N; Q; R; S; T; U; Appendix: The Research Participants; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908841-5-2

979-88-908841-6-9

1-4696-1080-9

1-4696-1261-5

OCLC:

861692592